Unpublished paper, 'Account of researches in thermo-electricity' by William Thomson Thomson writes on the thermal effects of electric currents in unequally heated conductors, and suggests that an electric current must exercise a convective effect on heat in a homogeneous metallic conductor of which different parts are kept at different temperatures. Annotations in ink throughout. Subject: Physics Received 20 April 1854. Read May 1854. Written by Thomson at Glasgow College [Scotland]. Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Account of researches in thermo-electricity'. 19 April 1854